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Now that the VMware Player 3 is out with the ability to create virtual machines, I am wondering what I would get for $189 for the full VMware Workstation. Is there a feature matrix somewhere?
Edit: I've read the FAQ ( http://www.vmware.com/products/player...
Started by Borek on
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However, if you're doing Snapshots....
From the VMWare player F.A.Q
VMware Player lacks many powerful features, such as Teams, multiple Player, and so on) - VMware is just keeping up with the other free offerings.
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My primary workstation (at home) is a Mac and I am running Ubuntu on Fusion 2. Can I copy that VM onto a disk/USB flash drive and load it on a Windows machine running VMWare Player?
Started by Ken Liu on
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I found it hard to create new ....
It works well.
Make sure you have the latest VMware Player and know that not all created an XP in Fusion, which now runs under vmware player under Ubuntu 9.04.
Yes the versions are compatible.
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I want to install VMware Player on Ubuntu 9.04. The official VMware download page does not have a deb package. Should I use their RPM? Or is there a better way to do this?
Started by Hosam Aly on
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There are a few for Ubuntu should be similar....
The VMWare Player installation on Ubuntu is muchFor installing VMWare Server on Debian/Lenny you need to use the .tgz download.
None specific to Player though.
On howtoforge too.
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Ok, I have downloaded a linux .iso and the VMWare player, but I'm missing a VM file to allow me to run the OS in the VM - how do I create this file, or where do i get one from?
thanks
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
My understanding is that Player is for running existing VMs faster and I've found....
VMware Server is also free.
With an (installation) .ISO for the O/S (Ubuntu in your case) I think you want to run VMWare Server, not Player.
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Hello
I've set up a number of snapshots in VMWare Workstation, and in order to deliver a Workshop-style training course, I want to distribute VM Player on the client machines and get them to select from the generated snapshot tree.
I'm positive this could...
Started by Duncan on
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VMWare Server only allows one snapshot per VM, rather than an older version of VMWare Player, as this does support multiple snapshots per VM (as doWhen you start the ....
Less convenient then Player in some simple use cases.
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What's the difference between VMWare Player vs Workstation? Is it that Player is for non-commercial use and workstation isn't?
For someone who builds and tests applications at home for non-commercial use, is it worth paying for a Workstation license? ...
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You may also....
VMWare Player can create new do both.
No longer true.
More information on all of them here.
Workstation can virtual machines.
The main difference is that VMWare Player can run, but not create virtual Machines.
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I have a vmware player on Ubuntu 9.04 which works well with an XP in a virtual machine.
Now I want to have a nightly backup of this vmware instance so I thought I just use rsync to keep them updated. It appears that rsync thinks almost all files have ...
Started by Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen on
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Are you rsyncing....
--modify-window=1
is usually sufficient.
Try the --modify-window option for rsync
Windows doesn't guarantee the accuracy of file modification times better than 2 seconds, so give rsync some leeway in its comparisons by using modify-window .
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I have Dell Studio laptop with Intel E6600 processor, I have checked and confirmed that this processor does not have Intel-VT support. (Its available in 6670 available on Dell Vostro)
Has anyone practially used VMWare Player 3.0 on a machine/laptop with...
Started by Binoj Antony on
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This is a very unusual VMware Server....
On a virtual machine with a 64-bit guest operating system, VMware Player performs an internal check on the host machine, without a host OS), inside of VMware Workstation or Player.
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I've an linux image(debian) running on VMWare ESX 3.1. Is it possible to copy that image and run it locally on my local VMWare workstation? how?
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However my.
It through the VMware converter (free tool) and converted it to run on a workstationr/player.
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Hopefully the question says it all; materials I've found on the web suggest I should be able to copy my VM from OSX to Linux. I copied all the VM files from OSX to Linux, but when I try to open my VM using "Open existing virtual machine", it seems to ...
Started by gareth_bowles on
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I tried with VMware Player instead of Server on my Linux host, and was able.
That I remember.
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